[GIT PULL 00/12] perf/urgent fixes and improvements

From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
Date: Mon Jun 11 2018 - 13:48:28 EST


Hi Ingo,

Please consider pulling,

- Arnaldo

Test results at the end of this message, as usual.

The following changes since commit 2696ec4566f598ab483a6bebc4ec841b2efb88ec:

Merge tag 'perf-core-for-mingo-4.18-20180606' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/acme/linux into perf/urgent (2018-06-07 07:18:51 +0200)

are available in the Git repository at:

git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/acme/linux.git tags/perf-urgent-for-mingo-4.18-20180611

for you to fetch changes up to fad76d4333fe73cf3f73704aa34d4ce523b1c458:

perf script: Show hw-cache events (2018-06-08 13:41:30 -0300)

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perf/urgent fixes and improvements:

perf stat:

. Add --interval-clear option, to provide a 'watch' like printing (Jiri Olsa)

. Fix metric column header display alignment (Jiri Olsa)

. Improve error messages for default attributes, providing better output
for error in command lines such as:

$ perf stat -T
Cannot set up transaction events
event syntax error: '..cycles,cpu/cycles-t/,cpu/tx-start/,cpu/el-start/,cpu/cycles-ct/}'
\___ unknown term

Where the "event syntax error" line now appears (Jiri Olsa)

perf script:

. Show hw-cache events too (Seeteena Thoufeek)

perf c2c:

. Fix data dependency problem in layout of 'struct c2c_hist_entry', where
its member 'struct hist_entry' must be at the end because it has a ZLA
as its last member, that gets space when handling callchains (Jiri Olsa)

Core:

- We cannot assume that a 'struct perf_evsel' is to be obtained from a
container_of operation on a 'struct hists' as there are tools, such as
'perf c2c' that uses 'struct hist' instances without having them in
container structs that also have 'struct perf_evsel' in a particular
layout, so provide a different way of figuring out if a 'struct hists'
and 'struct hist_entry' have callchains (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)

- Fix error index in the PMU event parser, so that error messages can
point to the problematic token (Jiri Olsa)

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxx>

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Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo (4):
perf hists: Save the callchain_size in struct hist_entry
perf hists: Make hist_entry__has_callchains() work with 'perf c2c'
perf hists browser gtk: Use hist_entry__has_callchains()
perf hists: Reimplement hists__has_callchains()

Jiri Olsa (7):
perf tools: Fix error index for pmu event parser
perf stat: Add --interval-clear option
perf stat: Use only color_fprintf call in print_metric_only
perf stat: Fix metric column header display alignment
perf stat: Allow to specify specific metric column len
perf stat: Add event parsing error handling to add_default_attributes
perf c2c: Keep struct hist_entry at the end of struct c2c_hist_entry

Seeteena Thoufeek (1):
perf script: Show hw-cache events

tools/perf/Documentation/perf-stat.txt | 3 +++
tools/perf/builtin-c2c.c | 10 +++----
tools/perf/builtin-script.c | 12 +++++++++
tools/perf/builtin-stat.c | 48 ++++++++++++++++++++--------------
tools/perf/ui/gtk/hists.c | 2 +-
tools/perf/util/hist.c | 12 ++++++---
tools/perf/util/hist.h | 4 +--
tools/perf/util/parse-events.y | 5 ++++
tools/perf/util/sort.h | 4 ++-
9 files changed, 67 insertions(+), 33 deletions(-)

Test results:

The first ones are container (docker) based builds of tools/perf with
and without libelf support. Where clang is available, it is also used
to build perf with/without libelf, and building with LIBCLANGLLVM=1
(built-in clang) with gcc and clang when clang and its devel libraries
are installed.

The objtool and samples/bpf/ builds are disabled now that I'm switching from
using the sources in a local volume to fetching them from a http server to
build it inside the container, to make it easier to build in a container cluster.
Those will come back later.

Several are cross builds, the ones with -x-ARCH and the android one, and those
may not have all the features built, due to lack of multi-arch devel packages,
available and being used so far on just a few, like
debian:experimental-x-{arm64,mipsel}.

The 'perf test' one will perform a variety of tests exercising
tools/perf/util/, tools/lib/{bpf,traceevent,etc}, as well as run perf commands
with a variety of command line event specifications to then intercept the
sys_perf_event syscall to check that the perf_event_attr fields are set up as
expected, among a variety of other unit tests.

Then there is the 'make -C tools/perf build-test' ones, that build tools/perf/
with a variety of feature sets, exercising the build with an incomplete set of
features as well as with a complete one. It is planned to have it run on each
of the containers mentioned above, using some container orchestration
infrastructure. Get in contact if interested in helping having this in place.

# dm
1 alpine:3.4 : Ok gcc (Alpine 5.3.0) 5.3.0
2 alpine:3.5 : Ok gcc (Alpine 6.2.1) 6.2.1 20160822
3 alpine:3.6 : Ok gcc (Alpine 6.3.0) 6.3.0
4 alpine:3.7 : Ok gcc (Alpine 6.4.0) 6.4.0
5 alpine:edge : Ok gcc (Alpine 6.4.0) 6.4.0
6 amazonlinux:1 : Ok gcc (GCC) 4.8.5 20150623 (Red Hat 4.8.5-11)
7 amazonlinux:2 : Ok gcc (GCC) 7.3.1 20180303 (Red Hat 7.3.1-5)
8 android-ndk:r12b-arm : Ok arm-linux-androideabi-gcc (GCC) 4.9.x 20150123 (prerelease)
9 android-ndk:r15c-arm : Ok arm-linux-androideabi-gcc (GCC) 4.9.x 20150123 (prerelease)
10 centos:5 : Ok gcc (GCC) 4.1.2 20080704 (Red Hat 4.1.2-55)
11 centos:6 : Ok gcc (GCC) 4.4.7 20120313 (Red Hat 4.4.7-18)
12 centos:7 : Ok gcc (GCC) 4.8.5 20150623 (Red Hat 4.8.5-16)
13 debian:7 : Ok gcc (Debian 4.7.2-5) 4.7.2
14 debian:8 : Ok gcc (Debian 4.9.2-10+deb8u1) 4.9.2
15 debian:9 : Ok gcc (Debian 6.3.0-18+deb9u1) 6.3.0 20170516
16 debian:experimental : Ok gcc (Debian 7.3.0-15) 7.3.0
17 debian:experimental-x-arm64 : Ok aarch64-linux-gnu-gcc (Debian 7.3.0-15) 7.3.0
18 debian:experimental-x-mips : Ok mips-linux-gnu-gcc (Debian 7.3.0-19) 7.3.0
19 debian:experimental-x-mips64 : Ok mips64-linux-gnuabi64-gcc (Debian 7.3.0-18) 7.3.0
20 debian:experimental-x-mipsel : Ok mipsel-linux-gnu-gcc (Debian 7.3.0-20) 7.3.0
21 fedora:20 : Ok gcc (GCC) 4.8.3 20140911 (Red Hat 4.8.3-7)
22 fedora:21 : Ok gcc (GCC) 4.9.2 20150212 (Red Hat 4.9.2-6)
23 fedora:22 : Ok gcc (GCC) 5.3.1 20160406 (Red Hat 5.3.1-6)
24 fedora:23 : Ok gcc (GCC) 5.3.1 20160406 (Red Hat 5.3.1-6)
25 fedora:24 : Ok gcc (GCC) 6.3.1 20161221 (Red Hat 6.3.1-1)
26 fedora:24-x-ARC-uClibc : Ok arc-linux-gcc (ARCompact ISA Linux uClibc toolchain 2017.09-rc2) 7.1.1 20170710
27 fedora:25 : Ok gcc (GCC) 6.4.1 20170727 (Red Hat 6.4.1-1)
28 fedora:26 : Ok gcc (GCC) 7.3.1 20180130 (Red Hat 7.3.1-2)
29 fedora:27 : Ok gcc (GCC) 7.3.1 20180303 (Red Hat 7.3.1-5)
30 fedora:28 : Ok gcc (GCC) 8.0.1 20180324 (Red Hat 8.0.1-0.20)
31 fedora:rawhide : Ok gcc (GCC) 8.0.1 20180324 (Red Hat 8.0.1-0.20)
32 gentoo-stage3-amd64:latest : Ok gcc (Gentoo 6.4.0-r1 p1.3) 6.4.0
33 mageia:5 : Ok gcc (GCC) 4.9.2
34 mageia:6 : Ok gcc (Mageia 5.5.0-1.mga6) 5.5.0
35 opensuse:42.1 : Ok gcc (SUSE Linux) 4.8.5
36 opensuse:42.2 : Ok gcc (SUSE Linux) 4.8.5
37 opensuse:42.3 : Ok gcc (SUSE Linux) 4.8.5
38 opensuse:tumbleweed : Ok gcc (SUSE Linux) 7.3.1 20180323 [gcc-7-branch revision 258812]
39 oraclelinux:6 : Ok gcc (GCC) 4.4.7 20120313 (Red Hat 4.4.7-18.0.7)
40 oraclelinux:7 : Ok gcc (GCC) 4.8.5 20150623 (Red Hat 4.8.5-28.0.1)
41 ubuntu:12.04.5 : Ok gcc (Ubuntu/Linaro 4.6.3-1ubuntu5) 4.6.3
42 ubuntu:14.04.4 : Ok gcc (Ubuntu 4.8.4-2ubuntu1~14.04.3) 4.8.4
43 ubuntu:14.04.4-x-linaro-arm64 : Ok aarch64-linux-gnu-gcc (Linaro GCC 5.4-2017.05) 5.4.1 20170404
44 ubuntu:15.04 : Ok gcc (Ubuntu 4.9.2-10ubuntu13) 4.9.2
45 ubuntu:16.04 : Ok gcc (Ubuntu 5.4.0-6ubuntu1~16.04.9) 5.4.0 20160609
46 ubuntu:16.04-x-arm : Ok arm-linux-gnueabihf-gcc (Ubuntu/Linaro 5.4.0-6ubuntu1~16.04.9) 5.4.0 20160609
47 ubuntu:16.04-x-arm64 : Ok aarch64-linux-gnu-gcc (Ubuntu/Linaro 5.4.0-6ubuntu1~16.04.9) 5.4.0 20160609
48 ubuntu:16.04-x-powerpc : Ok powerpc-linux-gnu-gcc (Ubuntu 5.4.0-6ubuntu1~16.04.9) 5.4.0 20160609
49 ubuntu:16.04-x-powerpc64 : Ok powerpc64-linux-gnu-gcc (Ubuntu/IBM 5.4.0-6ubuntu1~16.04.9) 5.4.0 20160609
50 ubuntu:16.04-x-powerpc64el : Ok powerpc64le-linux-gnu-gcc (Ubuntu/IBM 5.4.0-6ubuntu1~16.04.9) 5.4.0 20160609
51 ubuntu:16.04-x-s390 : Ok s390x-linux-gnu-gcc (Ubuntu 5.4.0-6ubuntu1~16.04.9) 5.4.0 20160609
52 ubuntu:16.10 : Ok gcc (Ubuntu 6.2.0-5ubuntu12) 6.2.0 20161005
53 ubuntu:17.04 : Ok gcc (Ubuntu 6.3.0-12ubuntu2) 6.3.0 20170406
54 ubuntu:17.10 : Ok gcc (Ubuntu 7.2.0-8ubuntu3.2) 7.2.0
55 ubuntu:18.04 : Ok gcc (Ubuntu 7.3.0-16ubuntu3) 7.3.0

# git log --oneline -1
fad76d4333fe (HEAD -> perf/urgent) perf script: Show hw-cache events
# perf version
perf version 4.17.gfad76d4
# uname -a
Linux jouet 4.17.0-rc5 #21 SMP Mon May 14 15:35:35 -03 2018 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
# perf test
1: vmlinux symtab matches kallsyms : Ok
2: Detect openat syscall event : Ok
3: Detect openat syscall event on all cpus : Ok
4: Read samples using the mmap interface : Ok
5: Test data source output : Ok
6: Parse event definition strings : Ok
7: Simple expression parser : Ok
8: PERF_RECORD_* events & perf_sample fields : Ok
9: Parse perf pmu format : Ok
10: DSO data read : Ok
11: DSO data cache : Ok
12: DSO data reopen : Ok
13: Roundtrip evsel->name : Ok
14: Parse sched tracepoints fields : Ok
15: syscalls:sys_enter_openat event fields : Ok
16: Setup struct perf_event_attr : Ok
17: Match and link multiple hists : Ok
18: 'import perf' in python : Ok
19: Breakpoint overflow signal handler : Ok
20: Breakpoint overflow sampling : Ok
21: Breakpoint accounting : Ok
22: Number of exit events of a simple workload : Ok
23: Software clock events period values : Ok
24: Object code reading : Ok
25: Sample parsing : Ok
26: Use a dummy software event to keep tracking : Ok
27: Parse with no sample_id_all bit set : Ok
28: Filter hist entries : Ok
29: Lookup mmap thread : Ok
30: Share thread mg : Ok
31: Sort output of hist entries : Ok
32: Cumulate child hist entries : Ok
33: Track with sched_switch : Ok
34: Filter fds with revents mask in a fdarray : Ok
35: Add fd to a fdarray, making it autogrow : Ok
36: kmod_path__parse : Ok
37: Thread map : Ok
38: LLVM search and compile :
38.1: Basic BPF llvm compile : Ok
38.2: kbuild searching : Ok
38.3: Compile source for BPF prologue generation : Ok
38.4: Compile source for BPF relocation : Ok
39: Session topology : Ok
40: BPF filter :
40.1: Basic BPF filtering : Ok
40.2: BPF pinning : Ok
40.3: BPF prologue generation : Ok
40.4: BPF relocation checker : Ok
41: Synthesize thread map : Ok
42: Remove thread map : Ok
43: Synthesize cpu map : Ok
44: Synthesize stat config : Ok
45: Synthesize stat : Ok
46: Synthesize stat round : Ok
47: Synthesize attr update : Ok
48: Event times : Ok
49: Read backward ring buffer : Ok
50: Print cpu map : Ok
51: Probe SDT events : Ok
52: is_printable_array : Ok
53: Print bitmap : Ok
54: perf hooks : Ok
55: builtin clang support : Skip (not compiled in)
56: unit_number__scnprintf : Ok
57: mem2node : Ok
58: x86 rdpmc : Ok
59: Convert perf time to TSC : Ok
60: DWARF unwind : Ok
61: x86 instruction decoder - new instructions : Ok
62: Use vfs_getname probe to get syscall args filenames : Ok
63: Check open filename arg using perf trace + vfs_getname: Ok
64: probe libc's inet_pton & backtrace it with ping : Ok
65: Add vfs_getname probe to get syscall args filenames : Ok
#

$ make -C tools/perf build-test
make: Entering directory '/home/acme/git/perf/tools/perf'
- tarpkg: ./tests/perf-targz-src-pkg .
make_install_O: make install
make_no_libperl_O: make NO_LIBPERL=1
make_no_newt_O: make NO_NEWT=1
make_no_ui_O: make NO_NEWT=1 NO_SLANG=1 NO_GTK2=1
make_clean_all_O: make clean all
make_pure_O: make
make_with_clangllvm_O: make LIBCLANGLLVM=1
make_install_prefix_slash_O: make install prefix=/tmp/krava/
make_perf_o_O: make perf.o
make_no_demangle_O: make NO_DEMANGLE=1
make_util_pmu_bison_o_O: make util/pmu-bison.o
make_no_scripts_O: make NO_LIBPYTHON=1 NO_LIBPERL=1
make_no_slang_O: make NO_SLANG=1
make_debug_O: make DEBUG=1
make_doc_O: make doc
make_no_libunwind_O: make NO_LIBUNWIND=1
make_tags_O: make tags
make_install_prefix_O: make install prefix=/tmp/krava
make_no_libpython_O: make NO_LIBPYTHON=1
make_install_bin_O: make install-bin
make_with_babeltrace_O: make LIBBABELTRACE=1
make_no_libelf_O: make NO_LIBELF=1
make_util_map_o_O: make util/map.o
make_no_libdw_dwarf_unwind_O: make NO_LIBDW_DWARF_UNWIND=1
make_static_O: make LDFLAGS=-static
make_no_libbionic_O: make NO_LIBBIONIC=1
make_help_O: make help
make_minimal_O: make NO_LIBPERL=1 NO_LIBPYTHON=1 NO_NEWT=1 NO_GTK2=1 NO_DEMANGLE=1 NO_LIBELF=1 NO_LIBUNWIND=1 NO_BACKTRACE=1 NO_LIBNUMA=1 NO_LIBAUDIT=1 NO_LIBBIONIC=1 NO_LIBDW_DWARF_UNWIND=1 NO_AUXTRACE=1 NO_LIBBPF=1 NO_LIBCRYPTO=1 NO_SDT=1 NO_JVMTI=1
make_no_libaudit_O: make NO_LIBAUDIT=1
make_no_auxtrace_O: make NO_AUXTRACE=1
make_no_gtk2_O: make NO_GTK2=1
make_no_libnuma_O: make NO_LIBNUMA=1
make_no_backtrace_O: make NO_BACKTRACE=1
make_no_libbpf_O: make NO_LIBBPF=1
OK
make: Leaving directory '/home/acme/git/perf/tools/perf'
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